Lisa?!

"Oh my gosh, it's been forever!  How have you been Binnie?"  Lisa asked excitedly as she grabbed her friend's hands.  Changbin was still confused and surprised from the fact that he was standing in front of Lisa.  The last time he had seen her was about a year ago at Hongbin's going away party after he became a trainee.

"It has been a while hasn't it?"  Changbin awkwardly smiled while Lisa brought him in for a hug.   "I've been okay, how have you been?" he asked as the two separated, putting distance between themselves.  Lisa seemed to brighten up at Changbin's question and she hopped repeatedly in place.

"Oh!  I didn't tell you!"  Lisa squealed as she again grabbed Changbin's hands.  This time, however, she looked behind Changbin and noticed Felix, who was awkwardly standing there watching anything besides the two in front of him in attempts to not seem like a creep.  Lisa laughed and pushed away from Changbin, playfully punching him in the shoulder while doing so.  "Were you going to introduce me to your friend or were you just gonna let him stand there the entire time?" 

Changbin's eyes widened with embarrassment as he quickly turned around to Felix.  "Oh, I'm so sorry!  Felix, this is an old friend of mine, Lisa.  Lisa, this is Felix" he introduced the two, who bowed to one another.  Felix gave an awkward smile, obvious that he was uncomfortable about the whole situation.  

"Nice to meet you Felix!  Are you a foreigner too?" Lisa asked, attempting to keep the conversation between her and Felix going.  Felix looked at her surprised for a moment, then nodded.  "Ha, don't worry.  I only knew that because I'm a foreigner as well and I could tell by how you hesitated while you were speaking because I did the same thing when I first moved here.  I'm from Thailand, so it wasn't a huge move for me distance wise.  How about you, where are you from?"

Felix let out a soft laugh and rubbed the back of his neck shyly.  "I'm from Australia, Sydney to be exact.."

Lisa squealed for probably the nth time and grabbed Felix by the shoulders.  "No way!  My friend BamBam, he has a friend from Sydney too!  You guys should totally meet!  His names Chan, and he's really-"

Changbin cut Lisa off by removing her hands from Felix's shoulders and placing them at her sides with a chuckle.  "Calm down Lisa, he already knows Chan.  They meet a while ago, so we got that covered."

"Oh," Lisa said with a slightly embarrassed laugh.  "Well, nice to meet you Felix," she said and Felix gave her smile and a head nod in response.

"So, what didn't you tell me?" Changbin asked, getting back to the subject they were originally on.

"Oh!  So you know how Bean is a trainee under Jellyfish Entertainment?" 

"Yeah?"

"Well, that summer, Yeri and I hung out a lot and one day we were just fooling around and posted a video of the two of us singing and rapping and stuff on her insta and we both may or may not have gotten scouted..." Lisa's voice trailed off towards the end, weary of how her friend would react.  

Changbin stared at her for a moment before he burst out with a smile and grabbed Lisa, pulling her into yet another hug.  "Oh wow!  Good for you!  What company did you guys get scouted by?" he asked.

Lisa's wide smile softened a little bit.  "Oh, well that's the other thing.  I got scouted by YG Entertainment, but Yeri got scouted by SM.  I haven't actually talked to her for a while since trainee schedules are always super strict and everything.  This is the first free day I've had in a few months and I was actually on my way to meet up with Jaehyun, Minhyuk and Kihyun.  We were all gonna go get coffee, do you want to come with?  You can bring Felix if you want to!" Lisa's voice was filled with pure joy just at the thought of getting together with her old friends again.

Changbin gave her a soft smile before he shook his head.  "I would love to, but I said I'd spend the day with Felix.  I'm sorry, Lisa" he said with a now sad smile.  Lisa's smile also became solemn and her head sank slightly.

"Oh, alright.  Maybe next time then?" She asked, trying to act like she wasn't disappointed.  Changbin nodded.

"Yeah, next time for sure."

Felix flicked Changbin in the back of his head, causing the latter to whip around and glare at him.  "Oh shut it, be angry later, go spend time with your friends.  We can always hang out another time, you might not get to hang out with them any time soon."

Changbin scrunched his eyebrows and gave Felix a worried look.  "You sure?" 

Felix rolled his eyes and shoved Changbin towards Lisa.  "Yes I'm sure, now go!" he said with as he shooed the two away.  He watched their backs until they merged with the rest of crowd, gone from his line of vision.  Once they were out of sight, Felix's smile was replaced with a frown and he stuffed his hands into his pant's pockets, walking back to the bus station with his head lowered.

~

The sound of laughter filled the air as the group of friends sat around the picnic table and shared stories from the past year.  "Yeah, and then Kihyun somehow convinced this guy that he was the son of some super powerful CEO of some random company out in the States!  The guy sold the place to him for like, twenty bucks!  Kihyun literally swindled the guy out of both a whole building and big payday." Minhyuk laughed as he explained how Kihyun came to own his little cafe.  Kihyun was sitting with a smug expression on his face sipping his iced coffee completely full of himself.

"Whoa, that's pretty awesome dude!  What happens if the guy ever finds out that you were lying?" Lisa asked as she took a sip of her bubble tea.  Kihyun smirked even wider than before and tsked, pulling out his phone.

"That, my dear Lisa, won't be a problem," he said, flashing his phone screen at Lisa.  She remained quiet for a moment while she looked over the picture on the screen.

"Yah!" She shouted after a minute, causing both Changbin, Jaehyun and Minhyuk to jump.  "You made him sign an agreement saying that, under no circumstance is he allowed to reclaim ownership?  You really did swindle this guy!" She laughed in disbelief at her friend.  Changbin shook his head and took a sip of his own drink, which was some sort of iced coffee.  He didn't know exactly what it was, all it said on the menu was 'Desert Bird'.  Whatever the concoction was, it tasted fantastic.

"So, Changbin, what about you?  What has the past year looked like for you?" Kihyun asked after they had calmed down from the previous story.  Changbin shrugged his shoulders and set his drink down on the table.

"Nothing too exciting.  After Hongbin's party, I spent most of the summer working on my music with Jisung and Chan.  And yes Lisa, I'm friends with Chan too," Lisa, who had opened her mouth to speak, automatically shut it, earning a couple giggles from the other three.  "Oh, there is the one thing that kinda came up once school started..."  The four moved closer to Changbin after he paused his story.  He raised his eyebrows and laughed, using a finger to push Minhyuk back. 

"You gotta keep going, what happened when school started?"  Lisa asked, her knees up to her chest and her eyes wide in curiosity.  Changbin shook his head and let out an amused breath.

"Okay, basically, our school has this blog that all the students are registered to.  Anyone can post anything anywhere and anytime and the whole school will see it.  So basically, some kid started posting all these strange posts, some with pictures and some without, but he always used some sort of quote.  Sometimes he quoted an author, sometimes a painter, sometimes an actor, but each time it was a different quote.  Everyone became like, super obsessed with finding out who he is, but no one could.  We all started calling him X," he stopped and pulled out his phone, scrolling through it for a minute, before turning it and showing the screen to everyone.  "See, that's his profile, just scroll and you can see his posts." he said as he handed the phone to Jaehyun who was sitting closest to the middle of the others.

The y scrolled through X's profile for a couple minutes, occasionally making comments to themselves, mostly 'Whoa' or 'wow, deep'.  Once they were done looking through the posts, Jaehyun handed the phone back to Changbin.

"Ya know, our school doesn't have anything nearly this interesting."  Jaehyun whined.

"Honestly though!  I swear, they read off the same announcement every morning, there isn't anything new or cool or interesting happening at our school." Lisa joined Jaehyun in his whining, causing Changbin to roll his eyes playfully at the two.

"Wait" Kihyun started,  "You said no one has been able to figure out who the kid is?"  Changbin shook his head.  "Then how do you know it's a he?"  Kihyun asked.  The other three perked up at the sudden realization.  Changbin laughed nervously, trying to shake the question off.

"I don't, but I assumed I guess?" he said with a shaky voice, but Minhyuk jumped up and pointed a finger at him.

"Ha!  You're lying!"

"No, I'm not," Changbin said, trying to remain calm.  Minhyuk just laughed and moved closer to him, making him more unsettled.

"Yes you are!" he shouted and suddenly pointed at Changbin's feet.  Everyone looked down at his feet, waiting for Minhyuk to continue his explanation.  "Every single time you've lied, you cross your feet, but it's always the right foot over the left one!"  Minhyuk's explanation left everyone speechless, especially Changbin.

"Wait, how did I never even notice that about myself?"  Changbin asked, dumbfounded as he stared at his crossed feet.  

"Heh, you didn't notice it because it isn't true, but you did just convince us that you were lying so thanks for that!" Minhyuk said with a grin as he sat back down.  Lisa, Jaehyun and Kihyun looked back and forth between Changbin and Minhyuk, waiting to see what would happen.

"Wha... wait what the fuck just happened?" Changbin asked, yet again struck dumbfounded at the fact that Minhyuk just tricked him into inadvertently confessing to lying about not knowing X.

"He just duped you bro," Kihyun said in disbelief.  "You just got played by Minhyuk!" he said with a wide smile.  He burst into laughter, smacking Jaehyun on the shoulder repeatedly before Lisa smacked him with her flipflop.  "Yah, what was that for?" he asked, rubbing his leg where Lisa smacked.

"You wouldn't stop laughing and I want to know who X is, but I can't unless you shut that trap you got on your face!"  Lisa snapped at Kihyun, who sunk back into his spot on the bench.  Changbin couldn't believe how ridiculous his friends were.  

"Okay, but if I tell you guys who X is, you have to swear to me on your life that you won't tell anyone, especially you Mihyunk."  

Minhyuk gasped and gripped his chest.  "How dare you?  I am an excellent secret keeper!"

"Ha, yeah right.  Remember homecoming our first year?" Jaehyun asked with a question brow.  Minhyuk shook his head.  "Well, ya should.  You spilled the beans on me liking Taeyong before I could ask him out and everyone at the dance found out and I got teased about it for like, the rest of the year."  Changbin had to stifle a laugh at Jaehyun's story.

"Hey!  You guys are together now aren't you?"  

"Yeah, no thanks to you though because he literally avoided me for the rest of the year!"  

"Yeah but-"

"Just shut up and let Changbin talk!  Geez," Kihyun rubbed the bridge of his nose.

Changbin let out the laughter he was suppressing, nearly knocking over his drink.  "Okay you guys are honestly too much sometimes.  Sometimes it's to the point that I question why I'm even friends with you," Changbin teased as he caught his breath from laughing.

"Don't worry, I totally understand you.  But before they start arguing again, just, as Jaehyun would say, spill the beans already!"  Lisa said with anticipation.

"Haha, alright... X is actually the guy you met today Lisa."  Changbin left it at that, knowing that Lisa was smart enough to catch on to what he was saying.

"Felix is X?"  She asked, surprised.  Changbin nodded and looked at the others, who were just lost.  Kihyun had some look on his face and he suddenly asked for Changbin's phone back.

"Why?" he asked as he handed the item back to Kihyun.  Kihyun just shushed him and scrolled through his phone.  After a moment, Kihyun let out a short laugh.

"Ya know, your school is filled with a bunch of dumbasses." he said as he handed the phone back to Changbin.

"What?  Why?"

Kihyun stared at him in utter disbelief.  "What the hell man, I thought you were smart.  X's username is literally Felix backwards with an underscore between the X and I.  I don't know what the two zeros at the end mean, but it's literally Felix backwards."  Kihyun took a sip of his drink, staring at his friend like he was the dumbest person alive.  

Changbin's brain shut off for a moment, unable to process the sudden information shared with him.  "Wait, so... His username is literally his name... I'm a fucking dumbass!" 

"Yeah, we already knew that Bin, no need to tell us again." Kihyun smirked into his drink, earning a swift kick to the shin from Changbin which caused him to choke.  

"Shut up, at least I don't have a cafe named after me because I'm short," Changbin shot back, earning a few quiet ooh's from the others.  

"Yah, naming it Tinie's wasn't my idea, it was Jooheon's!  He said that teens are attracted to cutesy stuff nowadays and Tinie's is cute so that's what I named it."  Kihyun defended himself and started pouting.

"Yeah, whatever shorty."  Changbin teased, making the others laugh.  The group went back to talking about things they did over the year, enjoying the time they got to spend with one another since they didn't know when they would be able to do it again.

~

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GUYYS GUYS GUYSSSSSSS SOKAY SO FIRST... Hello, how are you guys?  Hope you're all doing swellllllll, bc I'm doing pretty okay👌👌. SECOND...  I HAVE A NEW FIC IDEA AND IM HELLA EXCITED ABOUT IT!!!! What do you guys think of a hybrid fic??  I just need help deciding which ship I should make it, so please please help ya boi out!  I have too many ships and I can't decide so I figured I should ask what ship you'd guys want to see so... That's what I'm doing😂. But like... I'm honestly so excited for this fic bc it's gonna be different and like... You guys might hate me for it bc it's gonna involve you guys as readers to actually have to look a certain something up to understand certain parts or chapters to the story.  The certain thing is gonna be modified, so I'll make a code and put a link in a post on my wall so you guys can use it, but like... I'm hella fucking excited about it.  I just wanna know what ship you guys think I should do?  Also, highkey, Changbin and Hyunjin in the SK talker episode are making it hella hard for me to stay loyal to Changlix bc it's a highkey ship for me rn.  I literally ship everyone in sk with everyone it's not even funny.  Honestly, Hyunjin gets shipped with everyone, Changbin gets shipped with most ppl, and then add Minho into the mix who also gets shipped with a bunch of ppl... They're out of control man(s? Would it be plural bc I'm talking to all of you?  Idk, whatever lol) but I'm gonna stop talking now bc this A/N is super long so I'll chit chat with ya fools later. Love ya losers!!! <3